Joslyn Hoyte-Smith

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Joslyn Hoyte-Smith
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Sprinter

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom of England
EnglandEngland 
Olympic Summer Games
bronze 1980 Moscow 4 × 400 m
Commonwealth Games
gold 1978 Edmonton 4 × 400 m
bronze 1982 Brisbane 400 m

Joslyn Hoyte-Smith (born December 16, 1954 in Barbados ) is a former British athlete who specialized in the 400-meter run .

Hoyte-Smith was three times British Champion and Champion of the Amateur Athletic Association . At the European Athletics Championships in Prague in 1978 , she finished fourth with the British 4 x 400 meter relay . In the 400-meter run she reached the semi-finals. Shortly afterwards she won the English relay at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton .

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, she won the bronze medal behind the teams from the Soviet Union and the GDR in the 4 x 400 meter relay together with Linsey Macdonald , Michelle Scutt and Donna Hartley . Two years later, she finished fifth with the relay at the European Athletics Championships in Athens in 1982 and was third in the 400-meter run at the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane . At the 1984 Olympic Games , she reached fourth place with the relay.

Joslyn Hoyte-Smith is 1.63 m tall, weighed 52 kg during her playing days and started for the Dorothy Hyman Track Club .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. gbrathletics.com: UK Championships
  2. gbrathletics.com: AAA Championships (Women)